Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Staged to mark the 120th anniversary of the 1896 premiere of La bohème at Turin’s old Teatro Regio (destroyed by...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017
Usually known in English – if at all – as Johnny’s Kingdom, the satirical fairy tale Honzovo království was the last opera...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017
An all-Handel album from Philippe Jaroussky was always waiting to happen. And it’s refreshing that the French falsettist – as much...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2017
Music Theatre Wales’s heartening and astutely developed relationship with Philip Glass is over 25 years old and reached its apex when...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017
First, a brief geography lesson. Bydgoszcz (nicknamed Little Berlin) is the eighth largest city in Poland, with a population of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
A recent article from the Wagner world drew attention to how pleased the composer was by his children’s reaction to...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2017
Leonardo Vinci was a busy bee in the winter of 1725‑26, working simultaneously on three operas: Astianatte for Naples, Didone...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2017
It’s little over a year since the last DVD of Verdi’s I due Foscari starring Plácido Domingo and Francesco Meli was...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017
Alessandro Stradella’s music is currently enjoying a moment, and not before time. Ensemble Mare Nostrum’s Stradella Project is now four...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017
It was in 1809‑10, during Rossini’s final year at Bologna’s Liceo Musicale, that he was invited by the singer-composer Domenico...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2017
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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